Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-08-13

has a local affinity for the brain and
that habits of drinking necessarily
manufacture paupers and madmen,
demonstrates the right of government
in self-protection to interfere with the
sale OF intoxicating liquor as a bever-
age.
B. Prohibitory laws have stood for
70 consecutive years on the statute
books of Maine, and have effected SO
much in the reduction of taxes and in
the improvement of the government
of cities, and in the amelioration of
the drinking customs of the people,
that it is notorious that no political
party in Maine dares now propose
the repeal of prohibition.
6. Great cities are likely to rule
the American Republic; they will
also ruin it; if they are governed by
the whisky ring, as they have been
in a majority of cases thus far in our
history. The predominant political
influence of the ring in great and o
rupt cities is incompatible with the
success of American institutions, or
with safety to life and property under
universal suffrage in mismanaged
municipalities.
4. These facts fully appreciated
on the eastern seaboard of the United
States, where the people have suffer-
ed much from the mismanagement of
cities, the most crowded part of the
nation is %anxiously watching every
experiment with constitution prohi-
bltlon and all friends of temperance
and social order wish it success.
s. Now is a most favorable time to
work for Constitutional Prohibition.
If all citizens opposed to the liquor
traffic will do their duty the amend
ment can be carried in spite of the
opposition of the whisky ring.
3. A constitutional amendment is
superior to a prohibitory law, for tits
less easily repealed. A vote of the
Legislature and a vote Of the people
are required to pass or repeal an
amendment. A prohibitory law
would be the act of a Legislature
only; an amendment is the act of the
whole people of all parties. Organic
law is intended to be permanent. 1t
cannot be repealed by one packed
Legislature. 1t is difficult or impos-
sible to corrupt the whole of the peo-
pie.
10. The Liquor Dealers Union We
hemently opposes the proposed
amendment, and they prove that the
whisky ring do not expect it to be in
operative. 1C
IL. The friends of religion, of edu-
cation, of good order, many of the
State officers, and, it may be fairly
claimed, a large majority of the vot-
ers of the State, to say nothing of the
wives and mothers and minors.
whose interests, among those of 9th
ers, it is sought to protect, are in
favor Of the proposed amendment.
y. To prohibit one thing and ex-
cept a second, does not destroy the
power of the Legislature to regulate
the second, and so the exceptions
named in the amendment as to the
manufacture and sale of liquor for
mechanical, medical and scientific
purposes are not loopholes. This
opinion is supported by the most
eminent legal authorities. Suppose
that a law were passed that the peo-
pie shall not be taxed to support pri-
vate corporations, except railways.
1t would be absurd to pretend that if
the Legislature should tax the people
for the support of one railway it must
also tax them for the support of every
railway that asks for such support.
Precisely these absurdities belong to
the claim that the exceptions in the
proposed amendment nullify the
general principle contained in it.
The Whisky ring has had good legal
advice and fights the amendment be-
cause it knows that the proposed or
ganic law contains no loopholes.
WHAT IS LIFE.
A little crib beside the bed,
A little face above the spread;
A little frock behind the door,
A little shoe upon the floor.